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Oedipus Rex (1993)
Directed by Julie Taymor
“Oedipus Rex”
Music · 57m
Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together the key scenes of Sophocles’s tragedy translated by the Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin—a language that, according the composer, “is not dead but engraved in stone, and so imposing that it is immune to any popularization”.
Cast
Jessye Norman
Philip Langridge
Bryn Terfel
Harry Peeters
Min Tanaka
Crew
- Director
- Julie Taymor
- Writer
- Jean Cocteau
- Director of Photography
- Bobby Bukowski
- Producer
- Peter Gelb, Pat Jaffe
Details
- Release date
- 1993-01-01
- Runtime
- 57m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- LA
- Spoken languages
- Latin